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TIL that despite paperwork audits indicating that working conditions in Nike’s sweatshop suppliers were steadily improving, qualitative audits found that in reality, nearly 80% of them had either worsened or stayed the same.

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YO6A TIL of the ‘Secret War’, where the CIA recruited 50% of the Hmong population to fight for the US in the Vietnam War. Afterwards, they were completely abandoned.
xVe9k TIL in 2009, Airmen Colton Read went in for gallbladder surgery and woke up with both legs amputated. Military doctors had punctured his aorta and waited 8.5 hours to get him proper medical care. Read or his family aren't legally allowed to sue for damages.
ANYxB TIL each element on the Periodic Table corresponds to one solution of the main equation in the field of quantum mechanics & that the entire field of chemistry emerged from that single equation.
8A7K TIL: Sais are a bludgeoning weapon
0QeL TIL of the world’s oldest hotel, the Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan. It has been run by 52 generations of the same family since 705 AD.